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Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, Contemporaries Essays

The Author of the Abortion Is “I”: Against Redemptive Forms and Genres

“To speak for yourself then means risking the rebuff — on some occasions, perhaps, once and for all — of those for whom you have claimed to be speaking; and…

Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, Contemporaries Essays

Producing Abortion Epistemologies: Knowledge in / as Community

Looking at my nightstand, I noticed Tylenol and a chocolate bar and chuckled to myself. The juxtaposition of the objects seemed so obvious they bordered on cliché. If you know,…

Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, Contemporaries Essays

In a State of Expectancy: Writing Against the Abortion Plot

Women have said again and again “This body is my body!” and they have reason to feel angry, reason to feel that it has been like shouting into the wind….

Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, Contemporaries Essays

Abortion After All: A Dialogue on Reproductive Justice in a Post-Dobbs World

Heather Latimer, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Karen Weingarten, Associate Professor, Queens College, City University of New York We’ve been discussing abortion politics for more than ten years….

Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, Contemporaries Essays

Three Vasectomies, or, What is an Abortion Story?

2004: Vasectomy #2 In a creative writing workshop in college, I wrote an essay about being groomed by one of my high school teachers. (Maybe you did, too. It is…

Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, Contemporaries Essays

Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, Contemporaries Essays

Introduction: Abortion Now, Abortion Forever

“Abortions will not let you forget.”  The opening line of Gwendolyn Brooks’s famous poem “the mother” compels its reader to recognize and remember the fact of abortions now, in the…

Contemporaries Essays, Little Magazines

Contemporaries Essays, Little Magazines

“Fuck It Let’s Do it, Despite the Odds” — A Very Eclectic Survey and Some Thoughts on Contemporary Magazines

I’m tired. (Without formality, wouldn’t every academic article begin like this?) Because of my tiredness, which is both physical and conceptual, I devised a ruse to get me out of…

Contemporaries Essays, Little Magazines

Interview with Susan Sherman

Introduction IKON was founded with the goal of synthesis, and part of its lasting value lies in the unique ways in which it accomplished that goal — and kept changing….